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  • Tet Offensive Surprises Americans
    Tet Offensive Surprises Americans

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    Take a closer look at the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War.

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  • Gulf of Tonkin Incident Escalates War
    Gulf of Tonkin Incident Escalates War

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    The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution jump started the Vietnam War. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was addressed by Lyndon B. Johnson as a joint resolution and was passed by the U.S. Congress on August 7, 1964.

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  • The Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive

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    A calculated series of attacks take American and South Vietnamese forces by surprise, but the Viet Cong's offensive quickly spirals out of control.

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    Vietnam War Tactics

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    The guerilla warfare tactics of the North Vietnamese required U.S. military leaders to modify their combat strategy during the Vietnam War.

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  • After the Emancipation
    After the Emancipation

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    Four million slaves were formally freed when the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, but with the Civil War still raging, their future was far from certain.

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    Vietnam War: Leaders

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    View images of the Presidents, politicians, and military leaders who influenced American involvement in the Vietnam War.

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  • Schwarzkopf on Liberation of Kuwait
    Schwarzkopf on Liberation of Kuwait

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    Once President George H.W. Bush declares that "Kuwait is liberated" and Iraq's army defeated, Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf holds a press conference on February 27, 1991, and expresses his admiration for the U.S. troops.

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  • North Vietnam Disregards Ceasefire Agreement
    North Vietnam Disregards Ceasefire Agreement

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    In an October 12, 1973, interview, Col. Le Gran, U.S. deputy director of intelligence, discusses the discovery that North Vietnam installed SA-2 missiles in the southern city of Khe Sanh shortly after a ceasefire agreement prohibiting military incursion in South Vietnam was signed on January 27 of that year.

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  • John F. Kennedy on Coup in South Vietnam
    John F. Kennedy on Coup in South Vietnam

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    On October 29, 1963, President John F. Kennedy meets with the National Security Council to discuss whether to support the overthrow of South Vietnam's President Ngo Dinh Diem. During the secretly recorded conversation, Secretary of State Dean Rusk and the president craft a detailed plan involving Henry Cabot Lodge, ambassador to South Vietnam, Gen. Paul D. Harkins and the general of the South Vietnamese military, hoping to avoid setting off a civil war in the country.

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  • Nixon on Vietnam War
    Nixon on Vietnam War

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    On March 26, 1971, President Richard Nixon holds a meeting in the Oval Office with his National Security Council to discuss the war in Vietnam. The meeting is secretly recorded. Among the many topics he raises, Nixon recounts a prior conversation with House majority leader Hale Boggs on setting a date for the final withdrawal of U.S. forces.

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  • War Report on B-29 Use
    War Report on B-29 Use

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    Brig. Gen. H.S. Hansell delivers a report in June 1944 on American B-29 bomber strikes against Germany and Japan.

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  • Douglas MacArthur Receives the Japanese Surrender
    Douglas MacArthur Receives the Japanese Surrender

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    On September 2, 1945, aboard the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay, World War II comes to a close when Japanese officials sign the unconditional surrender. Gen. Douglas MacArthur presides over the signing and delivers a short speech on the momentous occasion.

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  • General Patton's Homecoming
    General Patton's Homecoming

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    On June 9, 1945, Los Angeles honored Gen. George S. Patton with a homecoming parade upon his return from Europe after Germany’s surrender. In an address at the City Hall ceremonies, Gen. Patton, in his trademark colorful language, describes the destruction wrought by the Eighth Air Force and Third Army.

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt on American Progress in World War II
    Franklin D. Roosevelt on American Progress in World War II

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    With the United States now entered into World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt uses the occasion of Washington’s birthday to broadcast to the nation on February 23, 1942, an outline of America’s progress in the war.

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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Labor Day Speech
    Franklin D. Roosevelt's 1941 Labor Day Speech

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    In his Labor Day radio broadcast in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt reminds his fellow citizens of the need to devote America’s industrial effort to building weaponry in order to "crush Hitler and his Nazi forces."

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  • Allies Liberate Bastogne
    Allies Liberate Bastogne

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    In a broadcast on December 29, 1944, Gen. Anthony C. McAuliffe recounts the 101st Airborne’s victory against overwhelming odds at Bastogne, Belgium.

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